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Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: BBC Audiobooks
Published: Oct 2009
Genre: Fiction - Mystery & Detective - Traditional British
Retail Price: $29.95
Discs: 5
This mystery from one of America's best-loved writers features one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time--Nero Wolfe. Wolfe is an orchid-growing, gourmandizing, demanding genius who solves most cases with the able assistance of his legman, Archie Goodwin.
When a baby is abandoned on the doorstep of a young socialite widow, the woman thinks she knows the identity of the father: her deceased writer husband, the cad! But who is the mother? Reluctantly, Nero Wolfe accepts the case, and Archie identifies the first clue: unusual buttons on the baby's overalls.
Cheverell Manor is a lovely old house in deepest Dorset, now a private clinic belonging to the famous plastic surgeon George Chandler-Powell. When...
First there were ten--a curious assortment of strangers summoned as weekend guests to a private island off the coast of Devon. Their host, an...
This carefully crafted novel is perhaps the strongest proof that Agatha Christie was a gifted writer as well as a shrewd storyteller. It is the story...
Returning from a foreign holiday, Constable Hamish Macbeth senses a dark cloud of evil hanging over his Scottish village of Lochdubh. A newcomer,...
A tenacious mystery writer calls on his old friend, the redoubtable Hercule Poirot, to help him reopen the twelve-year-old case of Lord and Lady...
As a series of poison pen letters sweeps through the town of Lochdubh, Hamish Macbeth begins to suspect a sinister motive, a suspicion that is...